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The Code That Was Never Supposed to Break
Nov 1, 2026 ·
9m 22s
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The Code That Was Never Supposed to Break
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In 1946, a linguist named Meredith Gardner read a Soviet cable encrypted with a one-time pad — a system mathematicians had proven unbreakable. The Venona Project went on to name...
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In 1946, a linguist named Meredith Gardner read a Soviet cable encrypted with a one-time pad — a system mathematicians had proven unbreakable. The Venona Project went on to name 349 Americans with secret relationships to Soviet intelligence, including the atomic spies at Los Alamos. But the codebreakers could never tell anyone what they had found. This is the documented story of Venona, the evidence it produced, and the fifty-year silence that followed.
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